Category: literary
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What Tolstoy Shows About Time, People, and Action
Tolstoy’s story doesn’t give abstract advice. It shows, through one sequence of events, why attention to the present matters more than any plan.
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Blanche DuBois and the Violence of Desire
A Streetcar Named Desire is not only about Blanche’s collapse. It is about the forces that make survival depend on illusion.